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81. Cotton MS Julius A X

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Cotton MS Julius A X
Title:
Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes: f. 1: early modern table of contents. ff. 2-43: a Latin account of the life and miracles of St Oswine, possibly copied in Tyneside in the 12th or 13th century. There are two blank, unfoliated leaves between folio 43 and folio 44. ff. 44-175: an imperfect copy of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th century- early 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

82. Cotton MS Julius C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C II
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Julius C II
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
16 items

83. Cotton MS Julius E VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E VII
Title:
Ælfric, Lives of Saints; Ælfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin; De falsis diis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest known copies of Ælfric's Lives of the Saints, along with two other texts associated with Ælfric and four possibly anonymous saints' lives (Euphrosyne, Eustace, Mary of Egypt, and the Seven Sleepers). All of these texts were apparently intended as a si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st third of the 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

84. Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I
Title:
Early modern index; Anglo-Saxon law codes I Cnut, II Cnut, II-III Edgar, the law codes of Alfred and of Ine (imperfect), Romscot, and Judex; completion of the law codes of Alfred and of Ine by John Joscelyn (d. 1603); Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; other additions, including an Easter table, the law codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund (imperfect), III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred; a law code beginning 'Godes grið', in the style of...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains Anglo-Saxon law codes and writings related to Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-v, 178r-180v: early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione Presbiterii'; ff. 3r-57v: Ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th-16th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

85. Cotton MS Nero C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Nero C III
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
14 items

86. Cotton MS Nero D IV

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Cotton MS Nero D IV
Title:
Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 700
Extent:
1 volume

87. Cotton MS Nero E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including: Cotton Nero E I/1: Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century - 2nd quarter 12th century
Extent:

2 parchment codices

88. Cotton MS Otho A VI

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Cotton MS Otho A VI
Title:
Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

1 volume

89. Cotton MS Otho A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

90. Cotton MS Otho A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XVIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Otho A XVIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
8 items

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